Tech regents mulling raises for faculty and staff

EL PASO —Faculty and staff of Texas Tech University System Administration, Texas Tech University, Angelo State University and TTU Health Sciences Center may soon see an increase in their salaries.

Proposed salary increases are 4 percent for system administration staff, 4 percent for Tech faculty and staff, 2 percent for Angelo State faculty and staff and 4 percent for Health Sciences Center faculty and staff. All salary increases will be awarded on a merit basis.

Texas Tech University Board of Regents will vote for final approval on the fiscal year 2013 operating budget at its meeting tomorrow in El Paso.

Jim Brunjes, TTU System vice chancellor and chief financial officer, said the last time staff as a body saw salary increases was September 2009.

According to the proposed budget overview:

■ Texas Tech University System administration budget will see a 7.54 percent increase, totaling about $17.6 million.

■ Angelo State University budget will see a .01 percent decrease, totaling $103.7 million.

Brunjes says the budget is the third largest of the six state university systems.

“This budget reflects our continued investment in the educational attainment of our state and the region by providing high quality academic programs and services to a greater number of students and patients,” said Texas Tech University System Chancellor Kent Hance. “This is a good return on investment for the state, the students and their families.”

The total operating budget for the entire system for fiscal year 2013, which runs from Sept. 1, 2012 to Aug. 31, 2013, is more than $1.5 billion, up 5.5 percent over last year’s budget.

“As regents we are proud of the efforts the system has made to control costs without sacrificing excellence in education and research,” said board Chairman Jerry Turner. “We continue to see much needed growth across all of the institutions and look forward to another great year at Texas Tech.”

Check back with lubbockonline.com later today for more on this story or read Friday’s edition of The Avalanche-Journal.

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The faculty doesn't really raise revenue. This is supposed to be West Texas, where everything is a money-making deal, right?

Now the lobbyists & athletics staff actually raise money. They deserve raises. But not the faculty. In a way they are a drag on everything -
A hindrance & bother to the "customers".

I mean, the conservative values way is to sift thru all the other considerations & get to the meat of the issues = dollars & cents.
Education is included in this philosophy, right? Everything in America is, right? Economic Darwinism is the rising wave of the future.

It's communism in reverse - to each according to his profit.
NO FACULTY RAISES!